THE HAGUE, Netherlands—Two suspects in the slaying a year ago of Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries have been arrested overseas, prosecutors in the Netherlands announced Tuesday, a day after the suspected “director” of the shocking killing was detained. The national prosecutor’s office said a 27-year-old man was arrested on the former Dutch Caribbean…

The Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales, Dame Vera Baird, has warned that a new law that would give the relatives of murdered people a right to attend parole board hearings could lead to their “revictimisation.” The government says the Victims’ Bill, which was unveiled after the Queen’s Speech last month, “aims to improve victims’…

Murderers and other criminals in England and Wales who refuse to appear in court for sentencing could be given longer jail terms under plans unveiled by the government. Earlier this month a judge criticised Donald Robertson for not having the “courage” to attend any of his trial for the 1987 murder of Shani Warren, and…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—The gunman who killed 17 at a Florida high school four years ago had no expectation of privacy when he posted disturbing photographs to a public Instagram account before his rampage and prosecutors can use them in his upcoming penalty trial, a judge ruled at a hearing Monday. Nikolas Cruz wanted others to…

ROCK HILL, S.C.—An autopsy revealed unusually severe brain disease in the frontal lobe of the former NFL player accused of fatally shooting six people in Rock Hill, South Carolina, before killing himself in April, authorities announced Tuesday. The 20 years Phillip Adams spent playing football “definitively … gave rise” to a diagnosis of stage 2…

Toronto police are asking for the public’s help to identify a suspect in the murders of billionaire philanthropists Barry and Honey Sherman. Det. Sgt. Brandon Price says police have not been able to rule out one individual who was captured on surveillance video around the time of the murders on the evening of Dec. 13,…

KANSAS CITY, Mo.—A Kansas City man who has been jailed for more than 40 years for three murders was wrongfully convicted in 1979 and will be released, a Missouri judge ruled Tuesday. Kevin Strickland, 62, has always maintained that he was home watching television and had nothing to do with the killings, which happened when…

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—An Alabama woman received a life sentence Wednesday for helping her husband plan the 2015 killings of his estranged pregnant wife, her unborn child, and three others. Rhonda Carlson, 48, avoided the death penalty in a deal with prosecutors in exchange for testifying against her husband, Christopher Henderson, prior to his trial. She admitted…

Four police officers who chased and tackled a knife-wielding terrorist unarmed in Reading are to be recognised for their bravery. History teacher James Furlong, 36, scientist David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, who worked for a pharmaceutical company, were murdered in Forbury Gardens on June 20 last year. PC James Packman, Sergeant Iain Watkinson,…

A man has appeared in court accused of the murders of two people found dead at separate addresses in central London. Lee Peacock, 49, was charged by the Metropolitan Police with the murders of Sharon Pickles and Clinton Ashmore in Westminster earlier this month. Peacock, of Harrow Road, west London, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court…